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A bug in the system: speculations on cybernetics, superorganisms, and simulated serendipity

Publication Date

2016-January-01

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Senior Capstone Projects

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Media Studies Program

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What is a cybernetic organism in the age of digital imagining? Where can we find a historical nexus between the methods used to models systems and the increasing velocity of digital images? How do bodies fracture and congeal when integrated...

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Competing interpretations of the inner chapters of the 'Zhuangzi'

Publication Date

1996-April-01

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Authors

Van Norden, Bryan William

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Philosophy Department

Chinese and Japanese Department

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Craft in Modernity

Publication Date

2015-January-01

Document Type

Senior Capstone Projects

Authors

Nicholas Meehan

Department or Program

American Culture Program

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Senior Capstone Project

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Since the industrial revolution, the craftsman has occupied an increasingly precarious position in society. The once obvious and natural role of craft is threatened. Craft production sits in uneasy tension with forces of modernity, practicality, industry, economy, and reproduction. These...

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Principles, virtues, or detachment? some appreciative reflections on Karen Stohr's 'On manners'

Publication Date

2016-June-01

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Authors

Van Norden, Bryan William

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Philosophy Department

Chinese and Japanese Department

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The Dao of Kongzi

Publication Date

2002-January-01

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Authors

Van Norden, Bryan William

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Philosophy Department

Chinese and Japanese Department

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The emotion of shame and the virtue of righteousness in Mencius

Publication Date

2002-December-01

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Authors

Van Norden, Bryan William

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Philosophy Department

Chinese and Japanese Department

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The ketogenic diet: its origin, transformation, and future

Publication Date

2019-January-01

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Senior Capstone Projects

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Department or Program

Science, Technology, and Society Program

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Senior Capstone Project

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Transgender Gynecology: The Construction of Medical Knowledge and Health Social Movements as Catalysts for Change

Publication Date

2023-April-21

Authors

Oppenheim, Hannah

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Science, Technology, and Society Program

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Senior Capstone Project

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This thesis examines the current state of routine transgender gynecologic care, highlighting patient discomfort and distrust of healthcare providers, particularly during the gynecological exam. I discuss how the construction of medical knowledge, including the makeup of the medical field, sources...

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